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A28640	A gvide to heaven, or, Morall instrvctions compiled partly out of the maximes of Holy Fathers and partly out of the sentences of antient philosophers / written in Latin by John de Bona ; translated into English by Iames Price.; Manductio ad coelum. English. l675	Bona, Giovanni, 1609-1674.; Price, James, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing B3550; ESTC R26447	94,815	245

Abnegation of our own will pag. 120 Chap. XIX Of the State of proficients Severall helps for advancing in Perfection How to esteem and make good use of Time Gods presence is necessary pag. 128 Chap. XX. The profit of Solitude How to fly evill Company What are the common vices of the World A Proficient must still labour for vertue Marks of advancing in it pag. 134 Chap. XXI Of the three Theologicall vertues Faith is to he shewn by the exercise of good works Our Hope must be in God alone Motives of divine Love The love of our neighbours is shewed by helping them doing them good An exhortation to Alms-giving pag. 143 Chap. XXII Of Prudence The necessity and difficulty of it The duty of a prudent man pag. 149 Chap. XXIII Of Iustice and Religion What Penance is and in what it consisteth pag. 150 Chap. XXIV Of Piety observance Obedience and Gratitude are commended How to receive and return good Deeds pag. 158 Chap. XXV Of Truth and the use of it Simplicity is commended Acts of Fidelity pag. 163 Chap. XXVI Of Friendship How it is to be entertained Certain rules of mutuall conversation pag. 167 Chap. XXVII Of Liberality What it is and how to be practised How it differs from magnificence pag. 174. Chap. XXVIII Of Fortitude the duties for it That a generous man should contemn Death pag. 178 Chap. XXIX Of Magnanimity The Character of a magnanimous man pag● 184 Chap. XXX Of Patience The occasions and effects of it Marks of true Patience An Exhortation to Patience in all manner of Sufferances The necessity of Perseverance pag. 188. Chap. XXXI Of Temperance How much Modesty conduceth unto it Of Abstinence and Chastity pag. 197 Chap. XXXII Of Mildnes and Clemency The duties and Excellency of both pag 200. Chap. XXXIII Of Modesty The properties of Studiosity Of the rule and use of Eutrapelia pag. 203 Ch●p XXXIV Of Humility In what it consisteth Of the Knowledge of Ourselves The character of a true humble man pag. 208 Chap. XXXV Of those who are arrived to the state of Perfection The Character of a perfect man The end of Christian Perfection is an union with God pag. 212 FINIS ERRATA PAge 9. line 17. read skilfull p. 12. l. 1. r. some p. 18. l. 9. r. thinkest of p. 21. l. 15. r. to have it cured p. 22. l. 6. r. quitting p. 24. l. 21. r. manners p. 29. l. 24. r. the. p. 31. l. 5. r. breakest of p. 47. l. 25. r. least p. 48. l. 23. r. bird-lime p. 49. l. 4. r. bit us p. 59. l. 11. r. others p. 60. l. 1. r. cannot p. 63. l. 2. r. unto p. 67. l. 21. r. slippery p. 70. l. 14. r. private p. 73. l. 8. r. Thou wilt p. 74. l. 25. r. let it be thy care p. 78. i. 2. r. things p. 79. l. 19. r. worldly p. 96. l. 29. r. we thought p. 98. l. 9. r. concur p. 108. l. 24. r. it is p. 110. l. 1. r. ently p. 115. in the last line r. Countrey p. 121. l. 20. r. he may live p. 123. l. 8. r. mis-approuve p. 131 l. 16. r. sleeping p. 137. l. 27. r. unwothy The Reader is also desired to take notice that pag. 212. in the Title of the last Chapter must be read The end of Christian perfection is an union with God the word perfection having by mistake bine left out in some of the copies A GVIDE TO HEAVEN CHAP. I. Of mans last End The misery of declining from it and Of the means to arrive unto it 1. WHosoever thou art that readest this Treatise know that my intention is to lead thee as it were by the hand in the way to Heaven to conduct thee unto that happy State which once possessed will give full content to all thy desires This is the scope and aym of all mens wishes unto which we all have a naturall propension All men would be happy but through Adams fall we are all become blind therfore the greatest part of men forsaking the true and Soveraign Good spend their time very unprofitably in seeking after vain and transitory things Some employ all their industry in gathering riches because they vainly persuade themselves that the cheifest happines of man consists in wanting nothing Others make it their cheif busines to purchase Honours bear great sway in the world and therfore are very ambitious to be in some Gouernment or at least to govern those who govern Some again descend soe low as to seek and place their cheif happines in sensuall pleasures esteeming thosse most happy who have liberty and occasion to besot themselves with all manner of brutish delights Soe little doe they value esteem true Beatitude And thus they all labour in vain like men that wander in a Labyrinth the more they pursue their happines the more they stray from it in this most unhappy because they doe not understand their own unhappines 2. This is the thing Oh miserable man which brings thee into great disorder misery Thou desirest to live happy and also to make a happy end but thou art wholly blind in discerning what true happines is how to arrive unto it foolishly straying quite out of the right way that leads unto it All that thou doest all that thou sayest all that thou desirest proues for the most part to be against thy self For thou dost not consider that Soveraign infinite Good for which thou wert created consequently which ought to be the term and center of all thy desires but thou wanderest here and there without any setled design like Ants that run up and down the body of an old tree to little or no purpose God who is the Creatour of all things hath drawn thee out of nothing given thee a Being to the end thou mightest love him with all thy hart and serve him with all thy forces As he is a necessary Being in himself so also he must of necessity be our last End Consider then seriously how much of thy life thou employest in his service unto whom thou owest thy self wholly All thy actions all thy designs all thy counsells are vain and to little purpose if they are not directed to him Euen as the place where thou arrivest is called the end of thy journey and the place where thou expectest to rest soe the end of thy life is terminated in God to whom thou oughtest to refer all thy thoughts words and actions untill at last enjoying his sight thou findest the accomplishment of all thy desires Whatsoever withdraws thee from last End leads thy soul to eternall perdition 3. As in a Sea-voyage if the ship should stop in some harbour or cast anchor nigh the shore to take in fresh water thou wouldest perhaps busy thyself in the mean time to gather up cockle-shels or some pretty-shaped pibles but yet thou wouldest still keep an eye towards the ship and be still listening that way least